E-book Privilege

I've been thinking about e-books a lot lately, for some reason.  (Amazon still hasn't restored Macmillan titles, last I checked.)  In particular, there's a debate in the SFWA Lounge about the shift from printed books to electronic.

I think we're in a very dynamic time.  E-books are changing, and we're waiting to see who's going to be the dinosaurs and who's going to follow the superior evolutionary path of the  platypus.  Will multipurpose devices (iPad, smartphones) do away with...